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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Extremely warm year suppresses plants’ carbon dioxide uptake in the long term, Feature shared by two black hole counterparts, New approach for leukaemia treatment?, Colloids borrow a trick or two from DNA structure

Read more of the article entitled 'Infectious disease: Invasion proteins target placenta'

Summaries of newsworthy papers appearing in Nature and Nature journals: Neuroscience: Deaf people learn new speech patterns, The tuberculosis bacterium’s stealthy ways, Susceptibility to bladder cancer, Dual gating in one motion,Risk factor for common kidney disease and A new take on tooth evolution

Read more of the article entitled 'New colon tumour gene gives fresh therapeutic lead'

Health experts of PolyU who have rendered their quality services to members of the China's national sports teams in preparation of the Beijing Olympics were thanked and praised.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Astronomy: Extraordinary stellar blast visible to the naked eye, Climate change: The older the better, Astrophysics: A blast from the past of a celebrity star and Water flow through synthetic trees

Read more of the article entitled 'Volcanoes: A mobile magma chamber '

Twin studies from eight populations show that genetic mechanisms for height, weight and BMI are more variable than researchers previously suspected. Height, weight and body mass traits are more diverse in Caucasians than in East Asian adolescents.

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